Afternoon Headshots: January 8th

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Prized Canucks defensive prospect Frank "don’t call me Frankie" Corrado was traded on Tuesday from the Sudbury team he captained to the Kitchener Rangers. The wrinkle? Kitchener head-coach Steve Spott cut Corrado from Team Canada’s World Junior Championship roster less than a month ago. Pass it to Bulis has more. Can we assume that Frank Corrado just got a significant raise?

More links and smart ass quickie analysis on the other side of the jump.

For those of you who’ve missed Cory Schneider saying absolutely the right thing all the time, here’s an extended quote he gave Ben Kuzma on Tuesday afternoon about the prospect of competing with Luongo at training camp:

Schneider on possibility of having Luongo at camp: "The best guy will play and there are worse things in the world than having …

Obviously, Luongo and Schneider seem to admire each other (both as goaltenders and as people), I mean come on, has a "+1" ever conveyed so much respect? I think not. It almost makes me sad to think that they’ve been placed into this adversarial situation competing against each other. It’s like they’re caught in a bad bromance (woah-oo-o-oo)…

Daniel Wagner highlights 6 story lines heading into Canucks training camp. One of the story lines is about Dale Weise, and it’s weird that PiTB just threw it in a post about other things like Luongo, Kesler’s injury, and defensive depth. Earth to PiTB, shouldn’t that bullet point be like nine individual posts about Weise’s mastery of Dutch geography?

More from Jason Botchford on the readiness of Canucks players, and their giddiness at returning to the ice post-lockout. Interesting tidbit: the Canucks are publicly countering questions about how their age, and their lack of game action (only four Canucks players played in Europe during the lockout) will impact the team negatively in a shortened season by pointing to their familiarity with each other as a group, and with Alain Vigneault’s systems. I’ll certainly be curious to see if that confidence is justified.

It appears this fact based review of Schneider was brought to us by the artist formally known as mantastic. The same one with the bitter oilers pill in his mouth while enlightening us on all things Canuck.

yeah because you are so much better about knowing your own team… why does the average age of of a team matter when the average age of your core players is roughly 30 while the average age of the oilers core players is roughly 21… please stop talking when you don’t know what you’re talking about.